Tweezers.



M. ENGBLSMAN.

TWEEZERS.

APPLIOATION FILED Nov. 21, 1910.

1,095,564, Patented May 5, 1914.

mmmnmumiliiiiiiiiiiiiifi i i fii ii II III NEONBOE ENGELSll-IAN, OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

TWEEZERS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Monnon ENonLsamN, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the countyof New .York and State 01" New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Tweezers, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to tweezers, and its object is the production ofa tweezer with an adjustable and detachable locking device. The tweezeris or such a character that it may be used without operating the lockingdevice.

In the accompanying drawings which exemplify the invention, Eigure 1 isa front view of the improved tweezer with the legs thereof in their openpositions, Fig. 2 is a View similar to Fig. 1 with the legs of thetweezer in their closed positions, Fig. 3 represents a top View of Fig.2, Fig. 4- shows a bottom plan View of Fig. 2, Fig. 5 is a View similarto Fig. 1 with the locking device detached, Fig. 6 shows a side View ofa sliding locking bar and Fig. 7 is a left hand end View of Fig. 6.

The tweezer is shown with the legs 10 and 11. At the outer end of leg 10is formed the serrated gripping point 12 and adjacent to its other endis formed the guide opening 13. A. guide pin 14 extends from the outersurface of the leg 10 adjacent to its opening 13. The leg 11 has formedat its outer end the serrated gripping point and adjacent to its otherend is formed the guide opening 21, while a serrated surface 22 isformed on the outer face of said leg 11. A detachable sliding lockingbar 25 with the body thereof somewhat curved has formed therein theguide opening 26 in about its central portion. At one end on the outersurface of said bar 25 is formed the knurled button 27 and from theother end thereof extends the T shaped hook with the depending leg 28and cross leg 29. The locking bar 25 is carried on the leg 10, the leg28 extending through the openings 13 and 21, the leg 29 of said hookbearing up against the outer surface of the leg 11, while the guideopening 26 registers with the pin 14. To detach the locking bar 25, itis lifted out out engagement from the pin 14, and then swung. at rightangles to the legs of the tweezer, when Copies of this patent may beobtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of EatentsSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 21, 1910.

Patented May 5, 1914. Serial No. 593,309.

the leg 29 can be lifted out of the guide openings 18 and 21. It will benoted when the tweezer is disengaged from the said locking bar as shownin Fig. 5 that it can be used as an ordinary tweezer.

To use the tweezer with its locking bar it may be supposed to be in itsopen position as shown in Fig. 1, and when an object is to be gripped bymeans of the gripping points 12 and 20, the said object is broughtbetween those points and the locking bar pushed up toward said points bymeans of the knurled button 27. This will cause the T shaped hook toforce the legs 10 and 11 toward each other and the said gripping points12 and 20 will securely hold the said object. To re lease said objectthe locking bar is moved in an opposite direction when the legs byvirtue of their spring tension will release the gripping points from theobject. In case the tweezer is to be used without the functions of thelocking bar 25, the latter may be retained on the leg 10, or it may bede tached therefrom and used in the ordinary manner.

Having described invention what I desire to secure by Letters Patent andclaim is:

1. In a pair of tweezers the combination of a pair of legs each havingan opening, a

locking bar slidably supported on one of said legs and a T shaped hookdepending, from said locking bar and extending through the openings ofboth of the legs of the tweezcr.

2. In a pair of tweezers the combination of a pair of le s having guideopenings formed therein, a pin extending from one of said legs, alocking bar having a guide opening and supported on the leg of thetweezer having the pin, said pin registering with the guide opening inthe locking bar, a T shaped hook depending from the said locking bar andextending through the guide openings of both legs of the tweezer and abutton on said locking bar.

Signed at the borough of Manhattan in the county of New York and Stateof New York this 15th day of November A. D. 1910.

MONROE ENGELSMAN.

Witnesses:

MARTIN ZTMANSKY, ARTHUR MARION.

Washington, I). G.

